Dr. Robert Brooks Robey MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
WRJVAMC R&D Svc (151) White River Junction VT, 05009About
Dr. Robert Robey is a nephrologist practicing in White River Junction, VT. Dr. Robey specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Robey most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regulation of the renal Na-HCO(3) cotransporter. XI. Signal transduction underlying CO(2) stimulation.
- Inhibition of early apoptotic events by Akt/PKB is dependent on the first committed step of glycolysis and mitochondrial hexokinase.
- Increased hexokinase activity, of either ectopic or endogenous origin, protects renal epithelial cells against acute oxidant-induced cell death.
- Regulation of mesangial cell hexokinase activity and expression by heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor: epidermal growth factors and phorbol esters increase glucose metabolism via a common mechanism involving classic mitogen-ac
- LPA is a novel lipid regulator of mesangial cell hexokinase activity and HKII isoform expression.
- The role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) in CO2 stimulation of the Na+/HCO3- cotransporter (NBC).
- Caveat experimentor: reporting expression profiling data involving multiple, functionally redundant isoforms.
- Cloning of a Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent betaine transporter that is regulated by hypertonicity.
- Akt inhibits apoptosis downstream of BID cleavage via a glucose-dependent mechanism involving mitochondrial hexokinases.
- Proinflammatory interleukin-1 cytokines increase mesangial cell hexokinase activity and hexokinase II isoform abundance.
- Insulin-mediated activation of activator protein-1 through the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway stimulates collagenase-1 gene transcription in the MES 13 mesangial cell line.
- Hexokinase-mitochondria interaction mediated by Akt is required to inhibit apoptosis in the presence or absence of Bax and Bak.
- Mitochondrial hexokinases: guardians of the mitochondria.
- Mitochondrial hexokinases, novel mediators of the antiapoptotic effects of growth factors and Akt.
- Is Akt the "Warburg kinase"?-Akt-energy metabolism interactions and oncogenesis.
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